The 'hate crime' convictions of an Amish sect leader and 15 followers for cutting beards and hair have been overturned. Sixteen members of a sect in Bergholz, Ohio, USA, were convicted in 2012 for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amish. Hate. Crimes. These three words suddenly linked arms in the fall of 2011 when a string of beard-cutting attacks startled ...

BERGHOLZ, Ohio, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- A group of Amish men in Bergholz, Ohio, is accused of a series of Amish-on-Amish attacks across four eastern Ohio counties, police say. The men, called the "Bergholz ...

BERGHOLZ, Ohio (RNS) A month after a federal jury convicted a rogue Amish bishop and 15 followers of hate crimes for beard-cutting attacks, the tiny Amish community here continues on, tightly bonded ...

BERGHOLZ, Ohio — The ringleader in hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Sixty-seven-year-old Samuel Mullet Sr. was sentenced Friday in ...